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Inventing a Socialist Nation - Heimat and the Politics of Everyday Life in the GDR, 1945-90 (Hardcover)
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Inventing a Socialist Nation - Heimat and the Politics of Everyday Life in the GDR, 1945-90 (Hardcover)
Series: New Studies in European History
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Twenty years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic,
historians still struggle to explain how an apparently stable state
imploded with such vehemence. This book shows how 'national'
identity was invented in the GDR and how citizens engaged with it.
Jan Palmowski argues that it was hard for individuals to identify
with the GDR amid the threat of Stasi informants and with the
accelerating urban and environmental decay of the 1970s and 1980s.
Since socialism contradicted its own ideals of community, identity
and environmental care, citizens developed rival meanings of
nationhood and identities and learned to mask their growing
distance from socialism beneath regular public assertions of
socialist belonging. This stabilized the party's rule until 1989.
However, when the revolution came, the alternative identifications
citizens had developed for decades allowed them to abandon their
'nation', the GDR, with remarkable ease.
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